Teo Alves

Teo Alves

A radical black pan latin pro-immigrant creative / social worker who is a movie buff - he/him

Favorite films

  • Monster
  • I Saw the Devil
  • Rye Lane
  • The Banshees of Inisherin

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  • Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

  • Zombie for Sale

    ★★★★★

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

    ★★½

  • The Holdovers

    ★★★★½

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  • Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    ★★★½

    David Jonnson carries this feature on his back like a heavyweight linebacker. Several layered emotions and adds complexity to his character. Set design is cold, metallic and robust. It stands out as a sci-fi, depicting the deadliness of facehuggers, xenomorphs. Sound design is utilised tactfully, especially in the beginning where there is machinery which sounds cousin to a deadly organism's screech or movement(s). The easter eggs and Alien: Isolation references are prevalent and integral to the franchise's origins. I wish…

  • Zombie for Sale

    Zombie for Sale

    ★★★★★

    Again, cannot emphasize once again how this is a five star feature and experience. For a film revolving around the undead, it is full to the brim with so much life, laughter, light hearted emotive moments, each and every individual scene is pivotal to the plot and characters. What I most admire about this feature is that you can fully see the love and dedication that they committed to through the camera work and casting.

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  • They Cloned Tyrone

    They Cloned Tyrone

    ★★★★

    Talk about a movie that is by us for us, it delves into the realms of blaxploitation, sci-fi, comedy with a lot of intent and intelligence and viewpoint. This is a movie that undeniably has a unique perspective throughout it, as well as it introducing arguably one of the best trios in modern cinematic history. Has so many good one-liners without losing its flavour as a directorial debut made by a black man commenting on racial societal infrastructures in the…

  • Rye Lane

    Rye Lane

    ★★★★★

    Layered, authentic, poignant, colourful, hilarious and spoke to me in a multitude of languages, tongues and and non verbal communications. A love letter to black British love. Never going to listen to Sign Your Name and Buggin' Out in the same way.